Too many of Australia's policy settings overlook the potential of the humanities, arts and social sciences to contribute to the national economy and well-being writes Stuart Cunningham.

What are some of the key emergent cultural practices in the twenty-first century? What is likely to gain ground and drive innovation? Stuart Cunningham explores these questions in this extract from Platform Papers 9, What Price a Creative Economy?

This 2003 report on the nature of R&D and innovation within the creative and content industries has been a key document in the development of theories around creative industries in Australia. It has now been added to the APO archive. The nature of R&D and innovation within the creative and content industries generally has not...

This report, a project commissioned by the Brisbane City Council defines creative industries, building on sectors outlined by the UK Creative Industries Task Force, and the Australian Culture and Leisure Classifications produced by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. It uses secondary data to outline Brisbane's creative industries hotspots, their strengths and weaknesses, and confirmation that...

Prepared for the Australian Broadcasting Authority by Ben Goldsmith, Julian Thomas, Tom O'Regan and Stuart Cunningham, The Future for Local Content: Options for Emerging Technologies considers the cultural and social objectives of media policy in the context of technological change - including the transition to digital transmission, multichanneling and datacasting.